Anvar Anvarov
Uzbek athlete (born 2000)
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Anvar Anvarov (Uzbek: Анвар Анваров, Anvar Anvarov; born 22 October 2000) is a long jumper from Uzbekistan. He is Uzbek national record holder, and has won national titles both indoors and outdoors.[1]
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| Nationality | Uzbekistan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 22 October 2000 | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event | Long Jump | ||||||||||||||
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| Personal bests | Long jump: 8.29 m (2026) NR | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Biography
In August 2022, he won gold at the delayed 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games in Konya.[2] In September 2022, he won silver at the Central Asian Athletics Championship in Samarkand.[3]
In June 2023, Anvarov set a new Uzbek national record in the long jump, leaping a distance of 8.22 metres in Geneva. This surpassed the previous national record set in 1985.[4][5] In July 2023 he finished fourth in the long jump at the 2023 Asian Athletics Championships in Bangkok with a leap of 8.07 metres.[6] He competed at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest in August 2023.[7] In October 2023, he finished fourth at the delayed 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou with a leap of 8.01 metres.[8]
In June 2024, he tied with Czech Petr Meindlschmid with a leap of 7.92 meters to lead the long jump at the Josef Odložil Memorial event in Prague.[9] He competed in the long jump at the 2024 Paris Olympics.[10]
He jumped 7.97 metres to finish sixth at the 2025 Shanghai Diamond League event in China on 3 May 2025.[11] He recorded a surprise Diamond League win with 7.84 metres at the 2025 Athletissima in wet conditions in Lausanne.[12] In September 2025, he competed at the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, Japan.[13]
In May 2026, he jumped 8.01 metres to place third in the long jump at the 2026 Shanghai Diamond League, before also leaping the same distance for a top-five finish at the 2026 Xiamen Diamond League.[14][15] Competing at the Boris Hanzekovic Memorial in Zagreb, a World Athletics Continental Tour Gold meeting, on 26 June, he won with a jump of 8.29 metres to win ahead of Luka Bošković.[16] On 14 July, he was runner-up at the István Gyulai Memorial, in Budapest, jumping 8.14 metres to finish behind Miltiadis Tentoglou.[17]
